Hunting Health Care-Associated Infections from the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory: Passive, Active, and Virtual Surveillance
Open Access
- 1 January 2002
- journal article
- review article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 40 (1) , 1-4
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.40.1.1-4.2002
Abstract
We face an exciting future in modern health care. Advances have markedly prolonged the human life span, but accompanied by this increased life expectancy is the increasing challenge of controlling health care-associated infectious diseases. In order to manage this problem, timely and comprehensiveKeywords
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